4 3,00 Faith it Jelf is not imputed. CH A P. 22, 9. Free pardon of fins will never prove the man blefhed , unto whom God- imputeth Faith , in a proper fence , for his Righteoufiiefs; as it Both prove him blefle,d, unto whom God imputeth Chrift's Righteoufiiefs, or aRigh- teouthefs without works : And the reaton is , becaufe faith is no fatisfa&ion, to the juflice of God ; & therefore can not be our Righteoufnefs, upon which we are pardoned & juftified. Now the Appille argueth thus R,pm, 4: 6, 7, S. Even as David al fò defcrsbeth the bleffednefs of the man , unto whom God imputeth righteoufnefs without works; Paying, bleed are they , whole iniquities are forgiven , dT whole fini are covered, ble fed is the man, to whom the Lord will not impute fin. Io. The Rightcoufüefs imputed is fomething diflin& from our Faith, & is not our faith it felf, for the Apotlle faith Rom.,-4: 23, 24. Now it was not writ- ten fox his fake alone , that it was imputed to him, but for us alfo, to whom it shill be imputed , if we beleeve on him d3' c. If Faith it felfwere the Righte- oufnefs imputed , thefe words could make nogood fence. Shall we think, that the meaning of the Apoflles words is nothing but this. Faith shall be im- puted if we have faith , or our Bcleeving shall be imputed to us , if we Be leeve. This looks not like one ofthe difcourfes ofthe Apoflle. t I. The imputation of our Beleeving , as our Righteoufiiefs , cannot ground our Peace with God , nor have we by itaccefs into this grace , where- in we (land ; nor can we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God ; nor glory in Tribulation : for it is obvious , how weak a ground that were for filch a great building. But the Righteoufnefs of Chrift laid hold on by Faith , can be a fuf icient bafiis for all this Rpm. ç: I, 2, 3. 12. Faith , as our work of obedience , is not the grace of God , and the gift by grace , which mutt be imputed to us, as our Righteoufiiefs, upon the account of which we are to be Juflified : as the offence & transgref: on of Adam was imputed to his pofterity , as the ground of death , paffing; upon them , and of judgment or guilt to condemnation : But is only our receiving of that abundance of grace , and ofthe gift of Righteoufnefs RZom. :t 7, But that which is imputed, as the ground of Juflification, as Adam's difobe- dience was imputed , as the ground of their- Condemnation , is the Righ- teoufnefs of the SecondAdam, of whom the firfi was a figure verf. 18, 19. 13.. When the Apotlle faith 2. Cor. ç: 21. for he made him fin for us, who knew no fin , that tee might be made the righteouf refs of God , in him; his mean- ing cannot be , that our Faith is the Righteoufiiefs of God , or that we are made the Righteoufnefs of God upon that account of having faith : for the Apoflle is holding forth here.a comfortable commutation , which God ma- keth betwixt Chrift & us, as the ground of that minilirie of Reconciliation ; to-wit ; that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himfelf, not im- puting their trefpafhes unto them, mentioned verf. 18, 19. And therefore as Chrift hath fome thing , that was properly ours , imputed to him by God , that is Sin or Guilt , which he had not in himfelf : fo we muff have fotne- thing, as the native fruit &effe&of that , that is properly Chrift's, imputed to us of God , that is, his Righteoufiiefs , which we have not in ourfelves. And
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